[josm-dev] Ticket #485: Can't search for tag's which contain colons

[Florian Heer]

Dirk Stöcker schrieb:
> I don't think that's a good idea. It is very unintuitive.
>   

The search right now is unintuitive... ...

> Better would probably be a distinction between normal search and a power 
> search (e.g. using regular expressions).
>   

.... either this ...

> Regarding the ':'. Why not switching to '=' for the standard method at 
> all? Usually tags have no '=', but very often they have ':'.
>   

.... or at least as a start this.
I didn't understand the reason for this kind of search anyway. 
Intuitively I would have assumed "=" was the standard separator.

> A good combination would be supporting // as regexp, so
>   

Yes, but at least I can't do that in one evening :-)

> Anyway the search seems to need some reworking:
>   

Full Ack.

Regards, Florian.